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This is my group on Sunday coming in. If you look to the right of the picture, behind the big sun that looks like a lady, you can see Magan and Mom worrying why I'm not there.

My TT position. Fully decked out, and full speed option on. You can also see my training wheels on the back wheel.

From the Velosimo website. I'll be saving around 53.82 watts when I drop the stem and get lower. Thats equivilant to crapping a small child...or a large cat.

Oh, how de-lightful! Thats dubious of you to say that! I bid you goodday.

I weezeled my way in this one

Road racing.....it's kinda fun....and it's kinda not fun. I did my first race in 6 months at Fayetteville. Luckily for me, the first race was 3 races in one weekend.
We started with 68 miles on Saturday. Peice of cake....had I trained on the road bike any....and not eaten all the cake. I sucked, I was happy to hang on, and need to work on riding up hills and in winds.
Then we did a 6.6 mile Time Trial. I actually did good. 14:56. Again, 40 seconds off Travis' time, who won, with a 14:15. Well, not exactly 40 seconds, but I think I slowed down too much in some of the turns. That ride put me in 11th overall. If it wasn't good enough I'd've went to waco and mountian bike raced on Sunday.
Well, lucky me, I stayed in the road race, where the guys I race(not all of them) were little whiney bitches,as Jason would put it. For example, I'd pull into an open spot in the peleton, and just because I didn't see the guy behind me who was going for the same spot, and would get an earful of "GOD DAMMIT!" or "F*CK"....more like "F**********CK!". Sorry dude, you have breaks don't you?
Then when we'd pass a big John Deere tractor pulled over, guys would yell at the group "SLOW DOWN GOD DAMMIT" and for good measure, follow it up with a "F*CK!". I noticed a pattern here, it was guys not getting there way. Like when a guy was breaking the law on the left side of the road, and he'd hear the motorcycle beeping for him to scoot over.....he wouldn't hit his breaks, or look for a spot to come in. He'd keep his spot and yell at the peleton to scoot over. HA, what an idiot.
Soooo, that is my next point. The yellow line. I got screwed again, and one day I'll have the knowledge to get unscrewed. But the officials said they'd DISQUALIFY people for crossing the edge of the world. Well, I tried my ass off not to, unless some guy came at me and was forced to avoid the accident...but was over to the right ASAP.
The final 2k, I was gapped because of the yellow line, I suffered for 94 miles to stay with the group. And this final bit where the top 5 guys were on the right, and the other 20 were on the left....and me trying to play by the rules on the right at the back.......ahhhh crap......non of those guys got penalized, and if they did, it was for 5 seconds. I lost 30 seconds to that, and ended up 19th overall.
Maybe I can talk the referees in to giving me a QUALIFY card, to dis disqualify me from another race in the future. Or it might be good for up to 5 yellow line violations? I think I can think of a good deal here.

My training will hopefully consist of some running now. Injuries suck, and I hope to be in the game again soon.

Whose the mother flippin'?.....

I'M THE MOTHER FLIPPIN'.

I hate that lady on the cell phone.....the one that talks to everyone. You know her, and I'm sure you've listened to her. I know you've listened to her, she never lets you say a word, and if you do, she won't listen. The derilict world of phone companies. Please get a phone message person that doesn't irritate people with the same phrase every time I try to make a call and get the voicemail. Bahhhh.

I took yesterday off work, to go out and get stuff done. I took two of Jason's bikes down to the shop to work on them. I love going to the shop. I get in the back, and a guy brings a Huffy in and Ken yells at me to take the wheel off of the $50 bike, while he's working on a set of $3000 wheels for a $5000 bike/work of art in the form of a Pinarello Prince. While the backup Colnago sits getting the Zipp's put on. GEESH. I did my job, and did it well.....maybe that dude with those bikes liked my work ethic???

So after the shop, I get in downtown Houston traffic to go visit the muesem of art and science. Well, I'll go in detail here to show the full effect. Huntsville, my current location, is lone wolf territory.....I think Corey Ray is the only other guy that has rode competitively here.....there is not group rides, runs, or get togethers. While Houston, an emerging hotspot for bums who ask for cheeseburgers(witnessed first hand) and cyclists, runners and many other types of peoples. So this much bigger city I'm driving through has many, MANY bad drivers. Or maybe they're all really good, and I'm the bad one....but using a blinker was a good thing....or so I thought. Add that fact, with the one that I have no idea where I'm at....or really where I'm going.....and the fact that I am very lost when it comes to direction. As you can see just getting there was a story in itself.

Moving on, to the actual Science muesem. How cool was this? I never knew it had so much usefull information. I mean, I've been there as a kid in school. But geesh, I learned about Space, dinosaurs, mummies, and saw butterflies(pictured above). The blackhole movie in the planterium was spectacular and awe inspiring. Or I was inspired by it's awe.

Then it was off to the art muesem. It was ok. I saw some cool artwork. Then I saw some stuff that I don't know how people claim to be art. But it was neat to see all the Picasso's and.....well, it was neat to see.

I'm pumped about Fayetteville....a little tired, as I've gotten up at 4AM for 3 days this week. But somehow I think it'll be good for adventure racing. Speaking of which.....

MOAT has a website up, and looks neat, check it out: www.peak.com/teammoat

I held a course record!

For 20 seconds, I held the WCCRT TT course record. For a 10k, I pulled a 14:09, a course record. I was so happy. And I literitly got 15 seconds of glory. As T-Rav started 1 minute behind me, he smoked the course, and took revenge on me taking his previous record, and came in at 13:32.
Afterwards, I spent the rest of the day sleeping on the grass in a park. A rugby guy almost hit me with his ball. That would be a bad way to wake up. Hell, it'd be a bad way to go to sleep!
Then I went and learned that I eat wayyyy to many carbs. Well, if carbs=sugar. I want to try to eat correctly, so I'll be crunching numbers to find out what all I 'need' to eat, and cut out all I 'want' to eat.
So while in the Woodlands, I went over to T-Rav's house and tinkered with my TT bike some. Got the front end looking beter than before, so it's all good.
And as soon as I started eating correctly, I ate bad. Shaun, Magan, and I went to Tortuga and ate for an hour or so. Talked the talk, and drove home.

As for Saturdays ride....I mean race that I rode in. It was tough riding the Single Speed for 60 miles. I finished right under 5 hours. I think that should seal up the deal for the Texas Marathon Championship. Yay.

I did happen so see the new Will Ferrel movie, Semi-Pro. It's ok. I think comedys nowadays try too hard. Yeah, you can get a laugh, but a forced laugh isn't the same as a ; I'll never forget this moment laugh because I cried and got a hernia from laughing so hard. So funny that people around you start laughing out loud, and people you don't even know around the back of the IHOP start laughing at you because it's so funny. Thats the kind of funny that will always be remembered by those that fought with me in Lazer tag!

If I was stuck in a battle for middle earth, I'd probably make sure this guy was on my side. He probably takes a crap that doesn't stink too. Just one more thing the girls love about him.
I finally got to race with Dave. I need to HTFU if I'm gonna race with him some more. We came out with the "W" on a very awesome course in Waco. I actually contributed to some navigation. I actually can say I didn't, I repeat DIDN'T, get us lost.
Mark apparently got his dingy all wet this weekend, and got 5th for doing so. All that went wrong was he lost a fingernail. That dingy must've been out of control!
Jason was going to win in Bar H, but flatted with 2 miles to go.
I had my business socks on, and you know what that means.....it's business time! I ended up 4th, after a shorter race of not warming up. Eh, next time I'll hopefully get a top 10 callup, instead of the back row. Maybe the leaders won't get so far ahead and I'll actually be able to race them.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/227537
This reminds me of the wind we've had at the last two races.